On building the route there is an assumption that the destination could be local. In this case loopback_dev is used to get the address. If the address is still cannot be retrieved dn_route_output_slow returns EADDRNOTAVAIL with loopback_dev reference taken.
Cannot find hash for the fixes tag because this code was introduced long time ago. I don't think that this bug has ever fired but the patch is done just to have a consistent code base. Signed-off-by: Vadim Fedorenko <vfedore...@novek.ru> --- net/decnet/dn_route.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/decnet/dn_route.c b/net/decnet/dn_route.c index 4cac31d..2193ae5 100644 --- a/net/decnet/dn_route.c +++ b/net/decnet/dn_route.c @@ -1035,7 +1035,7 @@ static int dn_route_output_slow(struct dst_entry **pprt, const struct flowidn *o fld.saddr = dnet_select_source(dev_out, 0, RT_SCOPE_HOST); if (!fld.daddr) - goto out; + goto done; } fld.flowidn_oif = LOOPBACK_IFINDEX; res.type = RTN_LOCAL; -- 1.8.3.1